The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: words writing meaning accuracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about. —Kenneth Koch More about this quote Tags: life purpose meaning poetry value necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. —Swami Vivekananda More about this quote Tags: life success purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. —Matt Cartmill More about this quote Tags: humor meaning knowledge science facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: writing meaning art criticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: life history purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: wonder life purpose meaning happiness goals direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think of a word as a pendulum instead of a fixed entity. A word can sweep by your ear and by its very sound suggest hidden meanings, preconscious associations. Listen to these words: blood, tranquil, democracy. You know what they mean literally but you have associations with those words that are cultural, as well as your own personal associations. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: words meaning democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: friendship words meaning language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't care why you came into my life, only that you did. I don't remember all the things I did wrong, I remember what I did right. I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special. —Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo More about this quote Tags: love life memory meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: meaning sea Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. —Miguel de Unamuno More about this quote Tags: meaning art sensation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man - a being in search of meaning. —Plato More about this quote Tags: humanity purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email